Which of these individuals is likely to be most
successful in an evolutionary sense?a)a reproductively sterile individual who never falls ill b)an organism that dies after five days of life but leaves 10 offspring, all of whom survive to reproduce c)a male who mates with 20 females and fathers one offspring d)an organism that lives 100 years and leaves two offspring, both of whom survive to reproduce e)a female who mates with 20 males and produces one offspring that lives to reproduce

b)a female who mates with 20 males and produces one offspring that lives to reproduce

In
a hypothetical world, every 50 years people over 6 feet tall are eliminated
from the population before they reproduce. Based on your knowledge of natural
selection, you would predict that the average height of the human population
will

a)A kingdom can include several subgroups known as domains. b)All eukarya belong to one domain. c)All prokaryotes belong to one domain. d)The importance of fungi has led scientists to make them the whole of one domain. e)) Only organisms that produce their own food belong to one of the domains.

b)) Only organisms that produce their own food belong to one of the domains.

Which
of the following best describes what occurred after the publication of Charles
Darwin's On the Origin of Species?

a)The book received little attention except from a small scientific community. b)The book was banned from schools. c)The book was widely discussed and disseminated. d)The book's authorship was disputed. e)The book was discredited by most scientists.

a)) He provided examples of organisms that had evolved over time. b)) He demonstrated that evolution is continuing to occur now. c)) He described the relationship between genes and evolution. d)He proposed the mechanism that explained how evolution takes place. e)He observed that organisms produce large numbers of offspring.

Darwin's finches, collected from the GalÃ¡pagos
Islands, illustrate which of the following?a)mutation frequency b)ancestors from different regions c)adaptive radiation d)vestigial anatomic structures e)the accuracy of the fossil record

a)Prokaryotes characterized as extremophiles that share some bacterial and some eukaryotic traits. b)Organisms that are adapted to high temperature environments, such as in volcanic springs. c)Single-celled organisms that are killed by the application of antibiotics at certain concentrations d)Bacteria-like organisms that can live only in extreme salt environments. e)Primitive protist-like creatures possessing fewer than two chromosomes per cell.

a)Primitive protist-like creatures possessing fewer than two chromosomes per cell.